Tweet of the week: @Green23 (Trent Johnston) �Guys bailing out on the Northern XI over the past few days, Big Roy Torrens was ready 2 jump in. #hehasntlostit�

The RSA Leinster Senior Cup final comes to Claremont Road for the first time on Saturday, and the Sandymount venue should make for a memorable day.

Clontarf are warm favourites, but a young and exciting Pembroke side have no fear. �They have Poynter, Cusack, Delany and Coghlan�, says captain Theo Lawson, �but we have a strong enough bowling attack to bowl them out for under 200. �And with Andy Balbirnie back, our pro Jonathan Beukes and myself we should have enough to win the game.�

Lawson has a scored 500 runs this summer, and tops the Division 2 averages which see five Pembroke batsmen in the top eight, and four of their bowlers in the top nine.

While the Dublin 4 side are without Robin Kelly and Barry McCarthy � in Australia with the Under 19s � Clontarf have their international pair of Andrew Poynter and Alex Cusack back having missed the semi-final.

Tarf got a first round bye and then beat Old Belvedere in a bowl-out before they turned on the style in the semi against Railway. Their star that day was skipper Bill Coghlan, who made an unbeaten 108.

�We�re very confident�, Coghlan told the Star. �I don�t know much about Pembroke but they�ll miss Barry McCarthy. We�ve great experience of the 60 over game. Rod Hokin taught us a lot about building a platform around 45 overs and going from there.�

And while Tarf have featured in nine finals this century, winning five, only Bill Whaley � back in 1997 � has played in a final with Pembroke. That experience should tell.

Play starts at 11am, and live radio commentary will be provided by Fergus Carroll on NearFM 90.3.

Performance of the week: take a bow Max Sorensen, whose hat-trick at Waringstown blew away the Northern XI.

Junior performance of the week: former Canterbury and West Hartlepool rugby star Ivan Morgan took up cricket after he came to Dublin, and made his maiden century on Sunday for Railway Union�s 5th XI.

The Battle of the Big Hitters in Pembroke on Friday will see a spectacular turnout of sporting talent as CricketIreland take on Leinster Rugby in a T20 match. Isa Nacewa, Richardt Strauss and Jordan Coghlan have some cricket experience, but the emphasis on the family day is fun and fund-raising for Spinal Injuries Ireland. Play starts at 3.30pm and tickets can be bought in advance from ticketmaster.ie